This blog's title is based upon the best question I ever overheard being asked, by a young Liverpudlian child to his mother, as in "What's..?".
The answer seems to be something of a creative and cultural nature which, in deed (primarily the making of art) and word, this blog intends to explore...

Monday, December 22, 2014

World Cup '74 Portrait #210 (Ally Hunter: Scotland)

graphite & putty eraser, with watercolour pencil/30x21cm

This most recent drawing to be completed in the Project features a
re-mediation of an image of Ally Hunter, who was represented in both the FKS
& Panini World Cup ’74 commemorative sticker albums (the former providing
our original source material in this instance) yet not subsequently selected
for the official Scotland squad for the tournament.

Although not featuring at
the World Cup, Ally Hunter’s is a name with which I became familiar soon after,
as I recall him being a Scottish football columnist in ‘Shoot!’, which I began
reading on a weekly basis soon into the following 1974-75 season (alternating
with John Greig, who was his ‘Old Firm’ counterpart).

Research reveals that
Hunter played only four matches for Scotland, all prior to 1974, & also
that, in common with the Holland squad, as remarked upon previously, the
Scottish World Cup selection’s 3 goalkeepers were quite astonishingly inexperienced
at international level, having gained only 9 caps between them, & David Harvey, the number one, had earned 7 of those.